Raymond, You asked > has anyone installed a 1.6 VW turbodiesel into a minivan? > ray
The 1.6 is under powered even for VW. See http://www.telusplanet.net/public/gary2a/rack/reimovan/reimovan.htm I have not yet had the pleasure of fitting such but my thoughts are thus. The power plant is also east west. This is not a real problem unless you have an SRS system fitted to the Minivan it is to be fitted to. Do not expect to get away at the lights in a hurry, fit a good stereo and speakers to shut out the noise of those in line behind and seeming to want to rush all the time in city traffic only to stop a few meters for the next set of lights, or to join the queue they were trying to leave. The Minivan would need to be non SRS and have a subframe. From here you will need to swap out fuel tanks and electronics and the complete subframe and match the steering to the recipient vehicle. That is you will need to remove the original subframe and power plant and adapt the donor powerplant complete with subframe into the recipient. In most cases it can be done. A lot of work for not much gain and expensive parts. However, the 1.6 turbo is not known for get up and go in the cars let alone a van that is made to carry some limited loading. Why not the 2 Liter plus, it will give just that bit more for city driving. Doug, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Lao Telecom MailScanner with NOD32, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
